[ug-bosug] Some thoughts after attending the Javaone event's Day one

[Ananth Shrinivas]

Hey Sriram,

Good Post! Concur with most of your points. Couldn't resist replying 
inline though :-)

> There is this general feeling world wide that Solaris is not as usable
> as Linux is. People regular point out that the installer is bad, that
> the POSIX extensions are not easily available, that the standard
> Solaris 10 desktop looks dull compared to the fancy desktops we see on
> Suse, Mandriva, Ubuntu and the like.

The silver lining is that many, if not all people *acknowledge* that 
usability and installer are problems areas. That, if nothing, is atleast 
a refreshingly different response than "ZFS is a rampant layering 
violation. Screw ZFS" ;-)

> At the CommunityOne, Ian Murdock spoke about plans within Sun to make
> Solaris more Linux-like. He was of the opinion that Solaris 10 is not
> there yet. Sadly, he made no mention of Belenix, Schillix or Martux.
> He only spoke of Solaris Express Community Release and of Nexenta as
> distributions besides the standard Solaris 10.
> 
> I felt that Belenix deserved a mention because it puts up a reasonably
> good KDE and XFCE desktop.

Hmm.. He probably hasn't tried it yet. It also means we need to more 
aggressively 'market' BeleniX !

> With Belenix, we have a great distribution on our hands. It is based
> on the most recent code bases. Because there isn't any corporate
>
> .....
> 
> Our very own Anil Gulecha has gone ahead and got Belenix booting off a
> USB device. This proves that Belenix can be worked with.
> 
> ......
> 
> community forums that other technologists worldwide have. All that we
> need to do is to get started with what ever small steps that we can
> think of.
> 
> I think we're second to none, and can blaze a great trail. It's not
> often in one's life time that one gets to be a part of history. Or to
> make history that others can be part of.

+ 1.0 * (10 ^ 100)

Ananth